Account Executive (Founding Role)

Kinter is building AI agents that automate expense-side accounting close, prepaid, accruals, and reconciliation, for mid-market finance teams on NetSuite. We're early (about 30 people), backed by a16z, Bain Capital Ventures, and YC, and getting our go-to-market motion off the ground.

We're hiring our very first founding Account Executive to partner directly with our CEO and CRO, take over founder-led selling and build our commercial engine from the ground up. This is a build-it-yourself role for someone who has done it before, not someone using it as an entry point into early-stage sales. You should be energized by being first, and ready to shape how Kinter sells.

How you'll make an impact here

• Sell Kinter. Find your way to the right people at mid-market and enterprise finance teams, educate them on AI-driven expense close, and help them succeed with the platform.
• Turn founder-led selling into a repeatable commercial engine, process, tooling and eventually the team we bring on.
• Identify high-potential prospects and run effective outbound prospecting to build and grow your own pipeline.
• Own the full lifecycle, from first outbound to contract signature, independently closing deals across a wide range of ACV without much support needed.
• Shape Kinter's early GTM motion from a blank page.  There’s no playbook to inherit here, only ambiguity to work through and you’ll be the one to help turn it into a scalable process down the road.
• Influence product strategy by bringing customer feedback back to the team from the front line.
• Become an expert in expense-side accounting close (prepaid, accruals, reconciliation) and speak fluently to finance buyers on NetSuite.

What you'll bring to the team

• Proven founding or early sales-hire experience: You've been the first (or one of the first) sales hires at an early-stage company before, and can speak concretely to what that actually required. 
• Deal size and ownership: Comfortable running full deal cycles independently and closing mid-market deals without needing a manager in the room
• Track record: 7+ years of full-cycle, quota-carrying sales experience at  fast-growing B2B SaaS startups, with a demonstrated history of hitting or exceeding quota, ideally mid-market, ideally selling into finance or accounting buyers.
• Technical acumen: Able to get fluent in a customer's finance stack fast enough to speak credibly to the ROI of automating close.
• Drive: Competitive, biased toward action, energized by operating in the gray zones, undefined process and figuring things out as you go
• Comfort with chaos: You’d rather diagnose what’s broken and fix it than wait for a process to be handed to you. Early-stage ambiguity isn’t something you push through, it’s part of what makes the role appealing. 
• Team player: Sales is a team sport here too. Collaborative, low-ego, and willing to help build the function around you.

How we work

Everyone at Kinter operates by five values. Here's what they look like in this role specifically:

• Be Fearless: You're the first dedicated seller here. That means cold outbound, pitching a product category buyers haven't seen before, and building your own playbook instead of waiting for one.
• Just Do It: Test a cadence, a message, an angle. If it doesn't land, adjust and move on. A deal cycle that ships and iterates beats one that waits for a perfect pitch.
• Sweat the Details: You're selling into finance teams who live and die by precision. Get the details of a customer's stack, their pain, and their contract right, every time.
• Obsess Over Customers: Spend real time understanding a prospect's close process before you pitch. The best reps here sell the outcome, not the feature list.
• Tell It Like It Is: Give an honest read on a deal's real stage, not an optimistic one. If a forecast is soft, say so early, not in the pipeline review.